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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/7] seccomp_filter: Enable ftrace-based system call filtering
On 04/28/2011 06:08 AM, Will Drewry wrote:
> This change adds a new seccomp mode based on the work by
> agl@chromium.org. This mode comes with a bitmask of NR_syscalls size and
> an optional linked list of seccomp_filter objects. When in mode 2, all
> system calls are first checked against the bitmask to determine if they
> are allowed or denied. If allowed, the list of filters is checked for
> the given syscall number. If all filter predicates for the system call
> match or the system call was allowed without restriction, the process
> continues. Otherwise, it is killed and a KERN_INFO notification is
> posted.
>
> The filter language itself is provided by the ftrace filter engine.
> Related patches tweak to the perf filter trace and free allow the calls
> to be shared. Filters inherit their understanding of types and arguments
> for each system call from the CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS subsystem which
> predefines this information in syscall_metadata associated enter_event
> (and exit_event) structures.
>
> The result is that a process may reduce its available interfaces to
> the kernel through prctl() without knowing the appropriate system call
> number a priori and with the flexibility of filtering based on
> register-stored arguments. (String checks suffer from TOCTOU issues and
> should be left to LSMs to provide policy for! Don't get greedy :)

This is potentially very useful for qemu/kvm.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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